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Issue Details

Issue #238
Published June 1971
Cover Price 0.15 USD
Pages 36
Editing Julius Schwartz
Notes Credits for inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. [July 2007] The records list Murphy Anderson as penciler as well, suggesting that Infantino may have only done layouts on this cover with Anderson providing finished pencils and inks.

Cover Details

Characters Superman; Sand creature
Synopsis Superman pleading with Sand creature for help
Genre superhero
Pencils Carmine Infantino (signed); Murphy Anderson (see notes)
Inks Murphy Anderson (signed)
Notes Credits for inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. [July 2007] The records list Murphy Anderson as penciler as well, suggesting that Infantino may have only done layouts on this cover with Anderson providing finished pencils and inks.
Reprinted in Superman in the Seventies (DC, 2000 series) #nn

15 page Superman story "Menace at 1000 Degrees!"

Characters Quig (villain); Clark Kent; Superman; Jimmy Olsen; Morgan Edge; Lois Lane; Sand creature
Genre superhero
Script Denny O'Neil
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Murphy Anderson

1 page Metropolis Mailbag letters page

Synopsis Includes a letter from Elliot S. Maggin
Script E. Nelson Bridwell
Letters typeset
Notes letters page

7 page The Fabulous World of Krypton story "A Name Is Born"

Characters Du-Vor; Kryp; Tonn; Krypton
Synopsis Du-Vor tells a fellow teacher the story of how two space explorers came to be stranded on ancient Krypton and began the Kryptonian race.
Genre super-hero; science fiction
Script Cary Bates
Pencils Gray Morrow
Inks Gray Morrow
Notes Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
Reprinted in Best of DC, The (DC, 1979 series) #40; in Superman: The World of Krypton (DC, 2008 series) #nn